UP Next: 2022 Polls Will See Whether Muslims Vote for Development or Identity
3 years, 7 months ago

UP Next: 2022 Polls Will See Whether Muslims Vote for Development or Identity

News 18  

Muslims are the second largest religious community in Uttar Pradesh. On one hand, it brought cohesive political assertion among the Muslim community and, on the other hand, the impact of the implementation of the Mandal commission also reshaped political aspirations of a section of Muslims. If someone prepares a political map of Muslim mobilisation, they may understand that due to various reasons Muslims deserted the Congress in Uttar Pradesh and moved towards parties such as the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party who were claiming to fight for social justice. The BJP as a Hindutva party also worked towards counter mobilisations of Muslims, which went in favour of parties that were doing politics around Mandal Commission-produced slogans of social justice. A drastic change appeared in the politics around Muslims when the BJP almost ruptured the perception of a homogeneous Muslim vote bank that can influence a party’s victory or defeat by their political shifting.

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Delhi Elections: AAP struggling even in 11 Muslim dominated seats as BJP heads towards a victory
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Delhi Elections: AAP struggling even in 11 Muslim dominated seats as BJP heads towards a victory

Op India  

The results of the Delhi Assembly elections are coming out on Friday. Mohan Bisht of BJP is leading AAP’s Adeel Ahmed Khan by 5 thousand votes. Karnail Singh of BJP is leading from Shakur Basti seat, with corruption accused Satyendra Jain of AAP trailing by 3000 votes. Here AAP’s Ale Mohammad Iqbal is leading Asim Ahmed Khan by 4000 votes. …

Who will gain the Muslim vote in the Delhi elections?
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Who will gain the Muslim vote in the Delhi elections?

India Today  

Why is Rahul Gandhi kickstarting his Delhi Assembly election campaign from Seelampur in Northeast Delhi? India Today's Data Intelligence Unit analysed all seven Muslim-dominated seats in Delhi — Okhla, Babarpur, Mustafabad, Seelampur, Matia Mahal, Ballimaran, and Chandni Chowk — to identify voting patterns and swings in the last two Assembly elections in 2015 and 2020. Bagri, who won the Delhi …

Keeping up with UP: How BJP won Muslim majority seats in bypolls
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Keeping up with UP: How BJP won Muslim majority seats in bypolls

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Yogi Adityanath and Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Bhartiya Janata Party chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Assam, who have a penchant for delivering polarising speeches and slogans are key leaders for the party in the North and the Northeast. Senior BJP leader Sunil Bansal, former in-charge of UP, had directed local leaders in western UP to get 10,000 …

Analysing the BJP’s Rise to Power in Maharashtra
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Analysing the BJP’s Rise to Power in Maharashtra

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 09, 2024 17:23 IST - 10 MINS READ The verdict in favour of the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election has not only surprised voters and observers but even seasoned political analysts and politicians by the sheer scale of its victory. The BJP and its alliance partners, Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party, got …

Maharashtra Elections 2024: What Relevance Does Vote Jihad Hold On Results? | ABP News
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Maharashtra Elections 2024: What Relevance Does Vote Jihad Hold On Results? | ABP News

ABP News  

With only four days left for voting in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, two terms have emerged at the center of political debate: 'vote jihad' and 'dharma yudh'. Fadnavis accused certain groups of inciting Muslim voters to cast their ballots unanimously against the BJP, a move he described as "vote jihad." Fadnavis’s statement suggests that there is a deliberate attempt to …

Meet Marathi Muslim Seva Sangh (MMSS), NGO practicing 'vote jihad', instigating hatred, fear among Muslims to vote against BJP
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Meet Marathi Muslim Seva Sangh (MMSS), NGO practicing 'vote jihad', instigating hatred, fear among Muslims to vote against BJP

Op India  

On Friday, 8th November, BJP’s Kirit Somaiya filed a police complaint at Mulund Police station in Maharashtra’s Mumbai against the Marathi Muslim Seva Sangh alleging them of practising vote jihad ahead of the state assembly elections, voting for which is scheduled to happen on 20th November. It has come to the fore that around 180 NGOs are working on the …

'Vote jihad' in Maharashtra? Over 180 'NGOs' work to enrol Muslim voters, polarise them under the pretext of creating voter awareness
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4 months, 3 weeks ago

'Vote jihad' in Maharashtra? Over 180 'NGOs' work to enrol Muslim voters, polarise them under the pretext of creating voter awareness

Op India  

The assembly elections in Maharashtra are just 10-12 days away. The said ‘NGOs’ are working specifically among the Muslim community to raise ‘awareness’ and increase the community’s voter turnout against the BJP, the strategy that helped the MVA led by Congress during the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. Thakur also highlighted that concerns among Muslim voters regarding central government policies, …

Maharashtra Elections 2024: Congress Leader Balasaheb Thorat Predicts MVA Victory, Slams BJP’s Governance
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Maharashtra Elections 2024: Congress Leader Balasaheb Thorat Predicts MVA Victory, Slams BJP’s Governance

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 07, 2024 10:27 IST - 9 MINS READ Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat is a veteran politician who has been an MLA from the Sangamner constituency in Ahilyanagar district, Maharashtra, since 1985. If Maha Vikas Aghadi comes into power in the upcoming Assembly election, and the Congress gets a greater number of seats, Thorat could be a strong …

Muslim-dominated Manglaur, Uttarakhand: How communities vote
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Muslim-dominated Manglaur, Uttarakhand: How communities vote

Op India  

On the 13th of July 2024, Congress secured two major victories in Uttarakhand Assembly by-polls – one from the Manglaur seat and the other, from Badrinath. Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin won as a BSP candidate with an almost 37% vote share defeating Congress’ Muslim candidate who came third with a 27% vote share. In the 2024 by-elections, BJP fielded Kartar Singh …

Respite may still elude a beleaguered community
9 months ago

Respite may still elude a beleaguered community

The Hindu  

In November 1888, Lord Dufferin wrote, ‘Muslims of British India, a nation of 50 million reigned supreme from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin’. There is optimism that regional parties could act as a check on the propaganda machinery of the Hindutva right and its anti-Muslim biases, potentially curbing the Narendra Modi government’s pursuit of discriminatory policies against Muslims. No Muslim …

FROM THE SIDELINES | Results of the 2024 election is a seismic moment for Muslims that restores faith in democracy.
9 months, 3 weeks ago

FROM THE SIDELINES | Results of the 2024 election is a seismic moment for Muslims that restores faith in democracy.

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 10, 2024 15:56 IST - 7 MINS READ “Love has illuminated my body My inner self has brightened My words now have the fragrance of musk” —Kabir, 15th-century poet-philosopher from Varanasi In the past decade, there appeared to be no limits to the exclusion-cum-violence, real and psychological, against India’s Muslims that the Narendra Modi regime and its …

India election results: Did ‘secular’ parties let Muslims down, too?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

India election results: Did ‘secular’ parties let Muslims down, too?

Al Jazeera  

Scared of the BJP describing them as pro-Muslim, these parties distanced themselves from the community, analysts say. “They know that a large part of India’s middle class is radicalised to the extent that taking the name of Muslims might harm the fortunes of political parties,” Mohammed Ali, an award-winning journalist based in New Delhi, said, speaking of Gandhi’s Indian National …

Election results 2024: A key vote bank yet Muslim representation will remain low in the new Lok Sabha
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Election results 2024: A key vote bank yet Muslim representation will remain low in the new Lok Sabha

The Hindu  

The 18th Lok Sabha in 2024 will see only 26 Muslim MPs, a number equal to 2019, which was the second-lowest tally ever in the House of 543 members. The 2014 General Election saw the lowest Muslim representation in the Lok Sabha at 22, while the community had its highest ever presence in the Lok Sabha, at 49, in 1980. …

Polarisation of Muslim votes likely to block BJP’s Bengal LS target
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Polarisation of Muslim votes likely to block BJP’s Bengal LS target

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata: Seventeen months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a Bharatiya Janata Party national executive meet in Delhi that his party should reach out to Muslims, especially those from the economically backward strata, the minority community may have emerged as a major hindrance to the saffron camp’s target of winning 30 of Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats in the …

Why are there fewer Muslim candidates?
10 months ago

Why are there fewer Muslim candidates?

Hindustan Times  

First, political parties, it seems, have become truly professional and the idea of winnability has been accepted as an unwritten norm of electoral engagement. Second, the emergence of Hindutva-driven nationalism as the dominant narrative of politics has forced the non-Bharatiya Janata Party parties to avoid any direct reference to Muslim identity, especially in political terms. Political parties were guided by …

Four anti-Muslim claims dominating India’s election: What’s the truth?
10 months, 1 week ago

Four anti-Muslim claims dominating India’s election: What’s the truth?

Al Jazeera  

India’s Hindu nationalists have peddled conspiracy theories about Muslims. ‘Those with more children’ What Modi said: During an election rally on April 21 in the western state of Rajasthan, Modi claimed that if the Congress party came to power, it would distribute the country’s wealth among Muslims. ‘Congress will snatch mangalsutras, give them to its vote bank’ What Modi said: …

India’s parliament has fewer Muslims as strength of Modi’s party grows
10 months, 2 weeks ago

India’s parliament has fewer Muslims as strength of Modi’s party grows

Associated Press  

MALAPPURAM, India — Preventing Muslim migrants from gaining citizenship. India has gone from being a country where Muslims were largely marginalized to one where they are “actively excluded,” said Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a political scientist and historian at New Delhi’s Ashoka University. so they remain enemies,” said Mehmood Bhai Khatri, a 64-year-old Muslim voter from Modi’s home state of Gujarat, …

Muslims now stand with BJP; understood Congress, INDIA bloc using them as pawns: PM Modi
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Muslims now stand with BJP; understood Congress, INDIA bloc using them as pawns: PM Modi

New Indian Express  

LUCKNOW: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said Muslims now understand that the Congress and INDIA bloc are using them as pawns, asserting that the community is distancing itself from them after seeing the development carried out by the BJP. Addressing a rally in support of BJP candidate Rekha Verma in Dhaurahra, Modi said that the poor and those belonging …

Ecostani | The silence of the Muslim voter could be real and strategic
11 months ago

Ecostani | The silence of the Muslim voter could be real and strategic

Hindustan Times  

There was silence outside Darul Uloom in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoband town, as students walked into India’s biggest Muslim seminary dressed in spotless white kurta-pyjamas and wearing a ‘taqiyah’, the round skull cap, on April 17, two days before polling was to be held for the first phase. “We will talk after June 4,” was his polite refusal, summing up the …

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter
11 months, 1 week ago

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter

Hindustan Times  

Uttar Pradesh has just finished its first phase of Lok Sabha elections and several recent reports have shown that Muslims have observed a “tactical silence” in this election. First, we must reject historical essentialisation — a view of the community that assumes a special historical continuity between the Muslim monarchs of India and Muslims in India today. This view of …

This election crucial for protecting community's rights, pluralism, say Muslim voters in Aligarh
11 months, 1 week ago

This election crucial for protecting community's rights, pluralism, say Muslim voters in Aligarh

The Hindu  

Campaigning in Aligarh is subdued with major parties focusing on their core support bases. In the Muslim community, views on this Lok Sabha election seem to vary, with some seeing it as crucial for India's pluralism while others feel neglected by political parties. "For me, this election is about safeguarding the Constitution, which grants me and everyone else in this …

‘TDP may lose Muslim votes after joining hands with BJP’
11 months, 4 weeks ago

‘TDP may lose Muslim votes after joining hands with BJP’

Hindustan Times  

Telugu Desam Party headed by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is facing the threat of losing the support of majority Muslims in the state in the May 13 elections, following its return to the National Democratic Alliance fold by forging an electoral alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party along with JanaSena Party. On March 31, Andhra Pradesh …

Assam BJP aims for Muslim votes, highlights development in Muslim areas
1 year ago

Assam BJP aims for Muslim votes, highlights development in Muslim areas

New Indian Express  

UDALGURI: The BJP in Assam is pinning hopes on getting Muslim votes by riding on the prevailing peace and “equal treatment” of communities by the government. Talking to journalists after attending an event of NDA constituents here on Saturday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told journalists he does not find any reason why the Muslims would not vote for the …

Parties vie for a pie in Muslim votes spread across two dozen seats
1 year ago

Parties vie for a pie in Muslim votes spread across two dozen seats

New Indian Express  

LUCKNOW: With the eight Lok Sabha seats of western UP set to vote in first phase on April 19, the battle for Muslim votes is taking a three-way turn in the state. Constituting 19 per cent of the UP population, Muslims hold key in at least two dozen seats where they are 20-50 per cent of the electorate. This time, …

Lok Sabha polls: As SP-Congress forge alliance, Muslim factor to watch out for on 24 seats in Uttar Pradesh
1 year, 1 month ago

Lok Sabha polls: As SP-Congress forge alliance, Muslim factor to watch out for on 24 seats in Uttar Pradesh

Hindustan Times  

The Samajwadi Party-Congress seat-sharing deal for the Lok Sabha election may have raised expectations in the alliance that it will consolidate the Muslim vote and fortify the INDIA bloc’s position in at least 24 Muslim dominated constituencies out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. Muslims account for 19% of Uttar Pradesh’s population and their voting behaviour is …

What is it like to be a Muslim in India?
1 year, 3 months ago

What is it like to be a Muslim in India?

Hindustan Times  

It’s, arguably, one of the saddest indictments of our country that today we increasingly ask the question “What is it like to be a Muslim in India?” The answer ought to be no different to being a Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or atheist. Ziya Us Salam’s new book, Being Muslim in Hindu India: A Critical View, explains in …

Muslim vote bank drifting away from Samajwadi Party towards Congress in UP: Report
1 year, 4 months ago

Muslim vote bank drifting away from Samajwadi Party towards Congress in UP: Report

Op India  

Most Muslim voters in Uttar Pradesh are drifting away from the Samajwadi Party and going to the Congress ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a report by The Sunday Guardian has reported quoting SP insiders. “Our party’s recent survey has shown that more than 60% Muslims may turn their back on the SP and vote for the Congress, which, if …

Madhya Pradesh poll: Congress lays hopes on Muslim votes, banks on 22 swing seats in case of tough contest
1 year, 5 months ago

Madhya Pradesh poll: Congress lays hopes on Muslim votes, banks on 22 swing seats in case of tough contest

India TV News  

Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections: In the bi-party politics of Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress in Madhya Pradesh, the 'factor of Muslim vote' may not be as important as in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, but in case of neck-and-neck contest in the assembly elections to be held next month, at least the votes of the minority community may prove crucial l …

In Karnataka, alliance with BJP hints at shift in JD(S) strategy towards Muslim voters
1 year, 6 months ago

In Karnataka, alliance with BJP hints at shift in JD(S) strategy towards Muslim voters

Hindustan Times  

As Janata Dal forms an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party for 2024 Lok Sabha polls, several Muslim leaders have resigned from the JD signalling a shift in the party’s approach towards its Muslim vote bank in the state, political experts said. So, the JD’ hope that the alliance will vote in their favour can still be a question mark.” …

Muslim youth should come forward and contest: Owaisi
1 year, 6 months ago

Muslim youth should come forward and contest: Owaisi

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: “It is important for Muslim candidates to contest and it is okay to lose once or twice. To people who say Muslim candidates cannot win we will then be able to show that I got so many votes if you contest,” said AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi. Speaking at the launch of a book, Absent in Politics and Power: Political …

‘Every vote counts’: Religious leaders urge Lucknowites to exercise franchise
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Every vote counts’: Religious leaders urge Lucknowites to exercise franchise

Hindustan Times  

LUCKNOW On the eve of the civic polls in Lucknow, leaders of several faiths urged city residents to participate in the election process by casting their vote. Issuing a similar appeal, Sikh religious leader Rajendra Singh Bagga said, “Voting percentage registered during the last two civic polls of 2017 and 2012 in eight zones of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation has …

BJP doesn't have single Muslim MP in LS: Owaisi to FM
1 year, 11 months ago

BJP doesn't have single Muslim MP in LS: Owaisi to FM

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday assailed Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday for her remarks in the United States that “Muslims in India are doing better than those in Pakistan,” questioning her how long Muslims in India will be linked to the neighbouring country. Owaisi stated that Muslims were being displaced in Assam and that members of …

Dilemma of Muslim community: How minority politics in India has prioritised 'identity' over issues of actual concern
2 years, 2 months ago

Dilemma of Muslim community: How minority politics in India has prioritised 'identity' over issues of actual concern

Firstpost  

This year has been dubbed the year of electoral “semi-finals” with as many as nine states set to go to the polls over the next few months ahead of the 2024 general elections, the so-called “finals”. The enthusiastic Muslim embrace of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is a classic case of clutching at straws to feel “included” swayed by carefully …

In AAP’s MCD Win, A Key Takeaway: 'Disillusioned' Muslim Voters
2 years, 3 months ago

In AAP’s MCD Win, A Key Takeaway: 'Disillusioned' Muslim Voters

ABP News  

The Aam Aadmi Party is patting its back as it has been able to penetrate the fort of the BJP that had been ruling the Delhi civic bodies for 15 years. Muslim areas, which held anti-CAA protests in 2019-20 and those impacted during the 2020 Delhi riots, seem to have rejected the AAP. AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s Okhla assembly constituency …

Gujarat Polls: BJP Wins 17 of the 19 Seats With Significant Muslim Population
2 years, 3 months ago

Gujarat Polls: BJP Wins 17 of the 19 Seats With Significant Muslim Population

The Quint  

Only one Muslim candidate has made it to the Gujarat assembly this time, Imran Khedawala of the Congress. The last time the BJP fielded a Muslim candidate in the Gujarat assembly elections was 1998. One of the seats with a heavy Muslim population is Godhra, where BJP’s candidate Chandrasinh Raulji, who referred to the rapists of Bilkis Bano as "Sanskari …

The politics of the madrasa survey
2 years, 5 months ago

The politics of the madrasa survey

The Hindu  

The Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to undertake a survey of madrasas has raised serious concerns not just over the fate of these institutions but also on the future of Muslim identity. In September, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhammi said his State would also conduct a survey of madrasas, like Uttar Pradesh. Whatever the answer, madrasas have become a new …

Desh Ki Awaaz Opinion poll: How many Muslim votes is BJP likely to bag if polls were held today?
2 years, 8 months ago

Desh Ki Awaaz Opinion poll: How many Muslim votes is BJP likely to bag if polls were held today?

India TV News  

Desh Ki Awaaz Opinion poll: How many Muslim votes is BJP likely to bag if polls were held today? Hindu Muslim Yes 72% 8% No 24% 88% Can't say 4% 4% Is Yogi's bulldozer model correct? Hindu Muslim Yes 62% 6% No 31% 81% Can't say 7% 13% Will BJP get votes by building Ram Mandir? Hindu Muslim Yes 48% …

PM Modi tells BJP to reach out to the deprived among Muslims, other minorities
2 years, 8 months ago

PM Modi tells BJP to reach out to the deprived among Muslims, other minorities

The Hindu  

Reaching out to deprived, non-elite among Muslims and other minorities on the issues of development and welfare programmes of the Modi government was one of the things flagged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the National Executive meet of the BJP in Hyderabad. According to senior sources present at the meeting, Mr. Modi made this intervention when BJP Uttar Pradesh …

AIMIM to contest Gujarat elections 2022: Will it polarise Muslim votes helping BJP?
2 years, 9 months ago

AIMIM to contest Gujarat elections 2022: Will it polarise Muslim votes helping BJP?

India TV News  

Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022: Asaduddin Owaisi, the chief of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, has announced that his party will fight the assembly polls in Gujarat, due to be held later this year. So if AIMIM contests in Gujarat, it's surely going to divide Muslim votes, which is likely to get split between MIM, Congress, and AAP, indirectly benefiting the saffron …

Region, Religion, Resentment: These 3 Factors May Reshape West Bengal Politics
2 years, 11 months ago

Region, Religion, Resentment: These 3 Factors May Reshape West Bengal Politics

The Quint  

The Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey of 2016 said that nearly 51% of the Muslims voted for TMC in 2016. After BJP's crushing defeat in the 2021 Assembly Elections, the fear of the BJP among the Muslim voters started to wane. Therefore, keeping this 75 percent Muslim vote intact is next to impossible for the TMC when a resurgence of the Left …

Uttar Pradesh's Muslims make secular choice in Assembly election
2 years, 11 months ago

Uttar Pradesh's Muslims make secular choice in Assembly election

The Hindu  

A t the height of the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi stir, Azam Khan, soon to be popular as a firebrand Muslim leader, became the darling of the Muslim masses with his fiery speeches. Even the sundry clerics from small madrasas in western Uttar Pradesh, which went to the polls during the second phase of the election, realised that a vote for …

Assembly poll results and after: Why Muslims and the BJP need to talk, and talk fast
3 years ago

Assembly poll results and after: Why Muslims and the BJP need to talk, and talk fast

Firstpost  

The effort should be to try and strike a balance between minority rights and the majority community’s sensitivities, which it believes have been ignored in the name of secularism In the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, a distant cousin of mine — an old Congress loyalist — who lives in a small town in eastern Uttar Pradesh, called …

Religious polarisation and electoral choices
3 years ago

Religious polarisation and electoral choices

The Hindu  

Different shades of religious polarisation were reflected in the CSDS-Lokniti post-poll survey in Uttar Pradesh. If the vote share of the 80% Hindu community voters is taken into account, the BJP secured a little over half the Hindu vote and the Samajwadi Party polled one-fourth of the Hindu vote. Thus while half the Hindu vote was garnered by the BJP, …

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election results 2022: Explaining the M-Y factors behind BJP’s big win
3 years ago

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election results 2022: Explaining the M-Y factors behind BJP’s big win

Firstpost  

M-Y in UP politics traditionally signified the Muslim-Yadav vote bank. Be it the Modi-Yogi combo or mahila and youth-centric schemes, it’s all worked out in the party’s favour The letters M-Y carry a lot of meaning in Uttar Pradesh politics. M-Y: Modi-Yogi The ruling BJP is set for a stunning win in the state, leading in 265 out of the …

UP Election Results 2022: Owaisi fails to 'move even a fly' amid 'bulldozer' campaign run by BJP
3 years ago

UP Election Results 2022: Owaisi fails to 'move even a fly' amid 'bulldozer' campaign run by BJP

India TV News  

Highlights AIMIM has ended up with a miniscule 0.4 per cent vote share and zero seats In 2017, the AIMIM, had fielded candidates on 38 seats in Uttar Pradesh, still had failed This time, it has got 22.3 lakh votes and increased its vote share marginally The All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen that contested the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections with much …

Muslims in focus as 55 UP constituencies go to polls in second phase
3 years, 1 month ago

Muslims in focus as 55 UP constituencies go to polls in second phase

Hindustan Times  

Nida Khan, a triple talaq victim, and Samyun Khan, a social worker in Bareilly, represent two ends of the political spectrum during the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in the second phase in which Muslims are in focus. Amid the ongoing hijab controversy, 55 seats in western Uttar Pradesh that go to the polls on Monday, would reveal the nature of …

Uttar Pradesh Elections Phase 2: SP Hopes for Big Gains; These 4 Factors Are Key
3 years, 1 month ago

Uttar Pradesh Elections Phase 2: SP Hopes for Big Gains; These 4 Factors Are Key

The Quint  

Some of the districts voting in phase 2 have a sizable Muslim population: Rampur 50%, Moradabad 50%, Bijnor 43%, Saharanpur 42%, Amroha 41%, Bareilly 34%, Sambhal 33%, and Badaun 23%. Last time, the BJP managed to win some of the seats that in these districts due to a split of Muslim votes between the SP and the BSP. But when …

Hindu nationalism pushed in voting test for Modi’s politics
3 years, 1 month ago

Hindu nationalism pushed in voting test for Modi’s politics

Associated Press  

AYODHYA, India — Under grey skies, construction cranes towered over laborers building a mega three-story temple demanded by millions of Hindus for over 100 years. It’s one of several frenetic constructions — massive roads, hotels and a swanky new railway station — underway in Ayodhya, a dusty, holy city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where Prime Minister …

UP Next: Only Religious Identity Will Not Determine a Muslim Voter’s Choice
3 years, 1 month ago

UP Next: Only Religious Identity Will Not Determine a Muslim Voter’s Choice

News 18  

The first phase of UP Assembly election on February 10 will be held in the state’s western region. These communities are socially heterogeneous, carrying multiple social identities within a larger identity of being Muslim. The Muslim community is further divided into various sub-identities, such as Rohilla Pashtuns, Muslim Rajputs, Ranghar-Jojha, Rayeen Muslims, Muley Jats-Muslims Jats, Gaur Muslim-Tyagi Muslims etc. The …

Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections: Why Phase 1 polling is a do-or-die moment for Yogi Adityanath
3 years, 1 month ago

Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections: Why Phase 1 polling is a do-or-die moment for Yogi Adityanath

Firstpost  

As Assembly polls kick off in western UP on 10 February, of the seven phases into which the state elections have been divided, the first one is perhaps the most critical for the BJP Caste and community equations in western Uttar Pradesh are in a state of flux after a year of street protests on the borders of Delhi brought …

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